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Cutler County is based on Emmet County, Mich., and my hometown of Petoskey, which is situated on Lake Michigan and is startlingly beautiful.

I was sitting on a bench near Lake Michigan, and one of the people I see almost every day was slowly walking towards me.

Some would visit Tanton, joining him on long walks in the wooded hills above the Lake Michigan shoreline and talking for hours.

Curiously, Donaldson’s former collaborator John Wise met a similar fate just four years later, when his balloon Pathfinder came down over Lake Michigan.

After training 30 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, he was eventually posted in March 1940 to the Oklahoma, based in Pearl Harbor as part of the Pacific Fleet.